Studies concerning the Psychology and Symptomatology of General Paresis

I . Schilder (655). 2. Schilder’s epistemological stand is indicated here. It is the articulation of the world which is given, not the “categories” of the “pure mind” (Kant). The point is of importance, since modern dynamic psychology has implications suggestive of solipsism. See, for example, Laforgue (441, pp. 57-59). The epistemological paradox of dynamic psychology is: how accoiint for an adequate knowledge of reality when consciousness, the medium for gaining knowledge, is determined by intrapsychic laws? This paradox-implicit to the psychoanalytic concept of “reality-testing’’ and amenable to psychological solution-is rarely tackled. (See Freud, Chap. 15, note 6, and Hartmann on “fitting-in,” Chap. 19, 11, above.) 3. For a discussion of this point, see Schilder (649, pp. 3-6 and 1 7 2 ) ; see also Schilder (648, pp. 23-28) . 4. See Koffka (406, pp. 103-5), and